Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-05-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The Church Missionary Society
gets 800, 900 from the mite boxes.

gets 100000 from the mite boxes.
The average age of those who
enter college in this country is seven
teen. A century ago it was fourteen
years.
The true ancestor of progressive
orthodoxy seems to the Christian Lead
er to be discoverable in Bushnell, the
famous Hartford theologion.
The Free-Will Baptists Of America
report 82,323 members, an increase
during the year of 1905; 1,542 churches,
and 1921 ordained ministers.
Bethany Church has opened
coffee and free reading-room in New
ark, N. j., and five hundred young
men visited it during the first month.
The New York Christian AdUocate
thinks "there are five hundred hypo-
critics, impostors and cranks of one sex
or the other getting living as temper
ance lecturers, evangelists, ETC., in the
United States and Canada"
The First Presbyterian Church of
New York, which has existed more
than one hundred years without any
other musical instrument than pre-
centor's tuning-fork, has at last yielded
to modern progress and will purchase
$40, 900 organ. IN. y Mail.
-Ex-President White, of Cornell,
predicts that eventually there will be
formed great educational system
worthy of this country, in which the
public schools will give the basis, the
colleges the intermediate education,
and the universities the most advanced
general and professional instruction.
During 1886 there were 1885
matriculated students at Edinburgh
University, being the largest number
ever known there. Of these, 1915 were
in the faculty of medicine, 1.122 in the
faculty of arts, 400 in the faculty of
law, and 108 were in the faculty of di-
vinity. Not more than forty per cent.
of the medical students are Scotchmen.
--Rev. J. ID. r. Brown, successful
revivalist of Illinois, was soldier, and
lost an arm in the war of the rebellion.
About a year ago pension was grant
ed to him, and he received seven thou
sand dollars back pay This he at
once, as he said, devoted to the Lord;
and he is using it to build and main
tain churches in his district. N Y
Sun.
The committees of the Northern
and Southern Presbyterian churches,
to make arrangements for the centen-
NAL celebration in 1888, have agreed
that the celebration shall take place the
fourth Thursday in May, 1888, in Phila-
delphia. Commemorative services will
be held and addresses delivered of
the speakers to be from the Northern
and half from the Southern Presbyte-
rian Church.
The following figures give some
idea of the Roman Catholic mission
work: At present India has 26
Bishops and Archbishops and 1,200
priests China and Japan, so
Apostolic Wears and 1,40O missiona-
ries; Africa, 2 Archbishops, 12 Bishops,
II Wears and 16 Apostolic prefectures;
British America has 80 Bishops and q
600 priests; Australia, 29 Bishops and
900 priests.
The young lady teacher of public
school at Santa Rosa, Cal, was very
desirous of giving an exhibition" at
the close of the term, and drilled the
scholars in declamations, recitations,
etc. The pupils were strongly averse
to the project, fearing the criticisms Of
visitors, and when the dreaded day ar.
rived and all preparations were COM
pleted, the teacher was surprised by
the absence of visitors, of whom she
had invited many. The reason was
made apparent by the subsequent dis
covery that the pupils had surrepti'
tiously pinned a card on the door after
the school hour, which read: "Exami-
nation day! No visitors admitted this
afternoon!"